I study conversational hand gesturing as constitutive of social sense-making.
Here is a chapter, “Gesture and Intersubjectivity,” I wrote for the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies. Please contact me for publication status and citation info before using or sharing.
More papers on gesture:
My dissertation in Philosophy, “Co-Speech Gesture in Communication and Cognition,” argues that reflection on gestural phenomena calls for a complete re-orientation in traditional analytic philosophy of language.
Thomas Wiben Jensen and I developed a unique coding method for analyzing metaphoricity as an event in which multiple gesturing bodies contribute.
An article-length recapitulation of the dissertation for a special issue in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences is here.
I had the pleasure of working with inspiration and mentor Jürgen Streeck on this chapter exploring Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of gesture in Prose of the World and developing a metasemantic theory of gesture meaning as “appropriative disclosure.”